*** The end is near, for Billy Napier at Florida ***

No one. That's the entire problem.

 

All the more reason to keep Billy the entire season. Perhaps he even survives the calendar year, if they can get something worked out with Kiffin behind the scenes.

 

That is probably the only reason he remains coach, plus let him suffer through the humiliation of getting trounced by ut, uga, ole miss and probably lsu. Let him face the music of having to regurgitate the samo samo.

 

Would it really be that terrible if the majority of the team left? If it means getting the right coach, let them go. A big-name coach will have the roster full before you know it with the transfer portal in play....and probably with better players. Getting the right coach is more important than not losing players at this point.

 

I don’t hate him. In fact, I don’t understand the hate. He is a good man with good values and in over his head. I just believe we need a change. 3 weeks ago I thought completely different

 

100% This. I'm all for absolute chaos because that may be the only way the UAA gets cleaned out.

 

Hate him the coach, not the man.

 

Yeah, I don't hate him either. He's just over his head, IMO and needs to be replaced with someone with a proven track record of being able to win at a P5 school. I didn't like the hire to start with, but tried to keep an open mind and support him until it became obvious (to me) last year that he couldn't handle the job. I felt like this year would be a disaster, especially after seeing the brutal schedule. I feel bad for the guy and wish him the best. I certainly had hoped he would prove me wrong and become a great coach. Changing coaches every 3-4 years is not good for any program, but especially the money-making machine at a major university.

 

That's your opinion. It is totally unsubstantiated, but you are entitled to it. The problem is in the coaching- plain and simple. You give Spurrier these same players and his staff, and we are undefeated right now. Napier has been a colossal disappointment not only in the x's and o's but also in being a motivational leader. He is simply not cut out for big-time football. I appreciate his recruiting ability, and perhaps that should be his focal point going forward for whatever program he ends up in. At this point, his options will be very limited.

 

I posted this on a different thread on the recruiting board, but I think the idea here is the same.

This is 20-25% of most of their college careers and I would think cause for second thoughts about the school if we let a doomed lame duck languish all season because it makes things harder for them to transfer.

Sometimes a show of good faith, like trying a new direction that even if it doesn't work out demonstrates that no season of theirs is meaningless, communicates to players on the fence that the overall program and school consider their interests too and could be trusted to make a better choice in the next coach. I think it may at least give enough pause to have kids wait and see rather than be so worn out and disgusted by a season long death march they can't wait to get away as soon as possible.

 

We are afraid to lose who? There are probably only 10 players we want to keep. Anybody on the offensive line? Who on defensive could we not do with out? Maybe if we showed the players that we cared about winning, they might stay.

 

Lagway and Wilson are the only irreplaceable names in my mind.

 

That's a pretty good question. If you're the new coach and you can manage to keep any 10 players from the current roster, who are you going with?

1. DJ Lagway
2. Myles Graham
3. LJ McCray
4. Eugene Wilson
5. Aaron Chiles
6. Jadan Baugh
7. Shemar James
8. Pup Howard maybe?
9. the best underclassman DB
10. the best underclassman OL

Something like that, perhaps?

 

It sucks that Fuchs showed up

 

He also said that we (the fans) would hate him as he installed “his process.” He sure got that one right

 

Sasse would probably have brought in his yard guy who he owed a favor too to be our AD and paid him $10m a year all while the guy is cutting the hedges at his house 2000 miles away. It's an ugly mess.

 

No hate here - just a lot of disappointment

 

I’d still take the hedge clipper as head coach over Napier at this point, or at least let him call the plays.

 

How does keeping BN help recruiting? He is a dead man walking into a moving train wreck. No recruit thinks he will be here next year and I sure see no reason to think an interim coach could have us playing worse.

The real question is does our timing of firing BN effect getting a great hire? If so, do whatever gets us that hire. If not, BN is asymmetrical- he has no upside so an interim coach seems a reasonable idea.